Jorge Villacorta in conversation with José Carlos Mariátegui

Museums collect objects that can be often found separated from their vital networks. Moreover, algorithms fragment contemplative attention through the colonial gesture of isolating, classifying, extracting. In response to this, non-Western, interconnection epistemologies and cosmogonies operate in completely different forms of attention: multi-sensory, relational, where all is a live agent, never finished, always in a fluid and dynamic form. The challenge for the 21^st century then consists of learning how to exhibit knowledge that resists the exhibition format, and how to create exhibitions-as-relationship-diagrams that do not reproduce neither the Western archival logic nor the smartphone’s “infinite scrolling”. Is an epistemic jump to the relational possible? In this session, Jorge Villacorta explores those topics with José Carlos Mariátegui.